Hi,

On May 6, 2:33 pm, Sean Devlin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Why does (str :a) return ":a" and not "a"?  I have to work around this
> a lot, and I'm just curios what the reasoning to go this direction was.

str returns ":a" because (.toString :a) returns ":a".  This is
probably so things like (println :a) work as expected, but I don't
know for sure.  Anyways, an easy way to get "a" from ":a" is with
name, ie:

(name :a) ; "a"

Hth,
Alan

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